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Metaphor in Numbers, Design and History
Santa Fe Complex Announces July Blenders
Wednesday Nights
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
632 Agua Fria St.
Blenders are a Wednesday night feature at Santa Fe Complex, located at
632 Agua Fria St. Entrance is on Romero St. Admission is free. Light
refreshments will be served; donations to defray their costs are
welcome.
Admission is free.
Refreshments provided.
Click here for directions.
Santa Fe, NM - July 2, 2008 - Santa Fe Complex announced a full
schedule of blenders for July, the organization's first full month of
operation. Award-winning and nationally-renowned artists and
scientists will engage in an extended conversation about the role of
art and science in modern society during the month's events excpet for
the final blender of the month, a journey to the days of dinosaurs and
the work of the modern paleontologist.
Monday, July 9
(Please note this is a Monday blender)
Design: Metaphor, Evolution, and Eugenics
An ongoing discussion that started with Metaphor, Morphometrics, and
Category now continues around the pivotal theme of design. Christina
Cogdell, Winner of the 2005 Edelstein Prize from the Society for the
History of Technology, and interactive video-sound artist David Stout
will contrast their contemporary work with the historical design
trends Cogdell outlines in her research.
Continue Reading »
Please Note: This is a Monday evening blender.
Wednesday, July 11
Stereo/Computational Photography II
Vaporlock and high gas prices couldn't stop photographer and book
artist Georgette Freeman as she crossed and recrossed the continent
this year, in yet another quest for "[q]uestions never dreamed of at
home . . . and the answers, well, the answers are, literally out of
this world." Fortunately for Santa Feans, the San Franciso-based
Freeman's 2008 wanderlust found pause in our neighborhood and she's
agreed to continue May's discussion of stereo and computational
photography. Continue Reading »
Wednesday, July 16
Industrial Strength Networks
Image: Datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project,
from Richard Cyganiak.
The information revolution can seem more like an algal bloom of data
overwhelming us as we try to make sense of it all. We're told it's all
part of a network, as though that makes the millions of web pages and
trillions of data points understandable. The word has become part of
popular culture, as we network in our jobs and social lives or join
virtual communities like MySpace and LinkedIn to expand our physical
networks exponentially. What is a network, really? And how do modern
networks make sense of the bits of information flowing through them?
This industrial strength blender will present an eclectic mix of
speakers who will discuss their application of the network data model
for various problems in academia and industry.
Continue Reading »
Wednesday, July 23
DinoBlender
Paleontologist Ralph Chapman celebrates his move to New Mexico with an
insider's guide to building a model dinosaur in this July 23
blender.The former director of the National Museum of Natural
History's Applied Morphometrics Laboratory and the former director of
the Idaho Virtualization Laboratory, Ralph will demonstrate how
scientists use fossil fragments to create life-size replicas of the
thunder lizards of old (now known to be bird ancestors, of course.)
More details to come.
Santa Fe Complex
Don Begley
Managing Director
505/26.7562
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
http://sfcomplex.org
About Santa Fe Complex
We are a community studio creating connections in science, technology
and art. Our roots lie in the rich cultural, scientific and artistic
traditions of northern New Mexico; our vision is a world where
technology supports a renaissance in art and science that opens our
minds and hearts to our full human potential.
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philosophies. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
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